From
Part IV: " In
most of the exceptional human experiences that I have read about the
transformative effect was brought about by a sudden peremptory experience. In my
case it was different. The triggering experience went on for almost two years
and the transformative impact rippled out over my subsequent life. It was in a
sense a chronic exceptional human experience in its onset and in its
transformative effect, which ran a chronic course over the ensuing six decades.
It made its presence felt with each of the mysteries I encountered as my work
and interests drew me to the paranormal, hypnosis, dreams and aspects of
psychopathology, in particular the psychological content of the major psychoses.
In each of these instances the Bindelof experience helped me eschew much of the
conventional explanations in favor of a greater appreciation of the depth of our
ignorance about the nature of reality.

In preparing this account I have come to more fully realize how pervasive these
earlier experiences have been on my life. Getting it down on paper was a task I
knew I had to do."